Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, which means it's your Awkward Tuesday podcast on
Speaker 1: a second Date update. I mean, Awkward Tuesday for us
Speaker 1: is really kind of like Second Date in that it's
Speaker 1: relationship oriented, but it could be any relationship.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but today we do have a boyfriend and a
Speaker 2: girlfriend that are having issues.
Speaker 3: We do, which you know, it's always good when they
Speaker 3: call it radio station to talk, they call them communicate.
Speaker 2: If I was dealing with what this guy was dealing with,
Speaker 2: I would have lost.
Speaker 3: It a lot sooner than he did a lot sooner.
Speaker 2: So you're gonna hear that in just a second, but
Speaker 2: I love to highlight your comments. Yes, Libby said, I
Speaker 2: only listened to you guys in the car, and no,
Speaker 2: I'm not changing it for anyone.
Speaker 3: Do you think she listens to the podcast or the
Speaker 3: radio in the car. I don't know, you know. I
Speaker 3: read it first as radio, and then I'm like, maybe not,
Speaker 3: maybe not. That's so interesting we are on the radio.
Speaker 3: You guys know that as well. All right, let's get
Speaker 3: into your podcast. It starts right now.
Speaker 4: Imagine thinking you just won the lottery, only to find
Speaker 4: out two months later it was a weird computer glitch
Speaker 4: and you actually won nothing, No way. That's what it's
Speaker 4: like getting hired to work in radio.
Speaker 5: Yay.
Speaker 4: Oh wait a second, Oh.
Speaker 3: Come on, Jack, I love working with us.
Speaker 4: Sure, but there is one non radio person who understands
Speaker 4: the feeling all too well. Because our listener thought his
Speaker 4: girlfriend was planning the most epic birthday trip for him
Speaker 4: of all time wow, until one text message shattered everything.
Speaker 4: Oh no, and now he needs our help not to
Speaker 4: save the trip, but possibly to save his relationship. You're
Speaker 4: gonna hear it in a brand new awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 2: Next, It's awkward.
Speaker 3: It's Tuesday.
Speaker 5: It's awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 4: Do you like it when a significant other makes a
Speaker 4: big deal about your birthday, like, goes through the effort
Speaker 4: to plan things for you, buys your nice presence, does
Speaker 4: a big surprise. Yes, I mean Brooks says she loves it,
Speaker 4: unless the surprise is a barbershop quartet.
Speaker 3: Was unpumpy. Okay, that was.
Speaker 4: Not cool fun, But there are contingencies to the surprise.
Speaker 2: Clearly well, four weird old men standing behind me singing
Speaker 2: in a radio studio.
Speaker 3: It's not my idea of a good time.
Speaker 4: Kind of an inside joke. But if you didn't know
Speaker 4: a while ago, Brook's husband organized that for her on
Speaker 4: the show, and she absolutely despised it.
Speaker 2: Dude, just making eye took contact with people that are
Speaker 2: singing to you is just too much.
Speaker 3: I wish I was here for that.
Speaker 4: But anyway, I bring it up because one of our listeners, Kroy,
Speaker 4: is having a birthday soon and his significant other was
Speaker 4: making a big deal about it. Emphasis on was because
Speaker 4: it sounds like maybe things have changed.
Speaker 6: Croy.
Speaker 4: Welcome to the show.
Speaker 5: Hey guys, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: Oh man, I'm sorry. When's your birthday? It's coming up?
Speaker 5: Yeah yeahry of Birthday's coming up in two weeks.
Speaker 1: Your trouble is literally dirty thirty like a fun way.
Speaker 4: Yeah okay, So what made you email the show for
Speaker 4: help about your birthday? Something with you and your girlfriend?
Speaker 4: What's going on?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, so my uh, I've been seeing my girlfriend
Speaker 5: Chrissy for two years now, and months ago she started
Speaker 5: making a big deal about how she wants to go
Speaker 5: over the top for me for my thirtieth birthday.
Speaker 6: That's awesome, great girlfriend.
Speaker 4: Yeah what does that mean though.
Speaker 5: Well, it means that she got me an early birthday present,
Speaker 5: which was a really nice watch. Oh and in addition
Speaker 5: to that, for the actual birthday, she booked us a
Speaker 5: trip to the Bahamas.
Speaker 3: Wow, yay, my god.
Speaker 4: You didn't take the watch as like kind of an
Speaker 4: insulting present.
Speaker 3: Though, Wait, what do you mean like you're running out
Speaker 3: of time? You're in thirty Yeah, you're never on time
Speaker 3: for stuff on time?
Speaker 4: Thought, now you're getting old times running out. You didn't
Speaker 4: read it like that symbolic.
Speaker 5: No, maybe if it wasn't as nice a watch as this,
Speaker 5: But I mean I didn't even think about that.
Speaker 4: Are you calling me?
Speaker 5: Old? Wait?
Speaker 2: Are you calling and there's a like you have an
Speaker 2: upcoming Bahamas trip right?
Speaker 5: Well yeah, but I mean even more than that, it's
Speaker 5: not just the watch of the Bahamas trip. She even
Speaker 5: showed me that she splurged on the hotel room too,
Speaker 5: like we have a super nice view of the ocean.
Speaker 5: That's amazing. She bought us outfits for the trip to
Speaker 5: where when we go out?
Speaker 3: So wait, where's the problem come in?
Speaker 5: So the problem comes in that last week she tells
Speaker 5: me that she had to return my watch. What wait? What?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah? And I was like, oh why, I really like
Speaker 5: this watch. It's really nice. And she said, I know,
Speaker 5: but maybe we'll get you a different one later. Oh,
Speaker 5: And I was like, what does that mean? And she
Speaker 5: was like, I don't really want to talk about it.
Speaker 6: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: I immediately think maybe she overspent?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, like is it sounds like she
Speaker 2: was just going nuts, like the hotel room and the
Speaker 2: trip and the watch, and then she got the credit.
Speaker 3: Card bill and she's like, wait a minute, I went
Speaker 3: too far.
Speaker 4: And we could do with that with a watch, but
Speaker 4: we'll still do the vacation.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well my thoughts are worse because after that happened last week,
Speaker 5: she texted me yesterday saying that she had to cancel
Speaker 5: the trip.
Speaker 4: What no, now Bahamas are off the table too. Yes,
Speaker 4: what are you thinking?
Speaker 5: I think she's planning to break up with me?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Really, come on, stay, No, she's not playing to break
Speaker 4: up with you. You're a good guy.
Speaker 2: Wait out the breakup, though, wouldn't she just because she
Speaker 2: wants to get the refund first?
Speaker 3: Maybe she doesn't want to spend the money.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but I would feel the same because
Speaker 2: why why else would you do that?
Speaker 4: Like why Genji's rebook?
Speaker 3: You can't do Cleveland instead of like the Bahamas.
Speaker 4: He's sure even if it is too expensive. You can
Speaker 4: find it more affordable.
Speaker 3: I think, more than anything.
Speaker 2: Why no explanation? Why isn't she telling you? Have you
Speaker 2: asked her what's going on?
Speaker 5: When I kept asking her why, she was like, oh,
Speaker 5: we'll do a different thing. We'll do a different thing
Speaker 5: later later. And she usually brings things up to me
Speaker 5: if something's on her mind or whatever, but this has
Speaker 5: been different, and I'm like, I can't think of anything
Speaker 5: other than she's gonna break up with me, and I
Speaker 5: don't know why. I have no idea. Why.
Speaker 3: Oh man, that's tough. Like I think i'd be pissed.
Speaker 5: Yea.
Speaker 2: If I'm just thinking if my boyfriend gave me these big, grandiose.
Speaker 3: Things and then took them away, I'd be like what
Speaker 3: the hell?
Speaker 2: Like I would probably be the one thinking about dumping them,
Speaker 2: to be honest, no, you got to.
Speaker 3: Be taking it back to playing something better, to take
Speaker 3: away presents that have already been gifted.
Speaker 4: Is that your suggestion to him right now? He should
Speaker 4: dump her first before she dumps him.
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, Well maybe what she has to.
Speaker 5: Say, well, I'm not that shallow, and really I'm just
Speaker 5: more concerned about our relationship here that's good.
Speaker 3: That's good. You seem like a really good guy.
Speaker 4: I mean, aside from taking away all your birthday presents
Speaker 4: and canceling your birthday trip and then not communicating about
Speaker 4: her feelings about why. Is there any other red flags
Speaker 4: in the relationships?
Speaker 5: Yeah? None that I can think of.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, then we need to help you figure out
Speaker 4: what the heck is going on? Yes, with your girlfriend
Speaker 4: and your birthday plans coming up. There has to be
Speaker 4: an explanation.
Speaker 5: I need her to open up and tell me, because
Speaker 5: it seems like anything I say she quickly just closes
Speaker 5: it down. She doesn't want to talk about it at
Speaker 5: all anymore.
Speaker 6: We could just call it bunch like Chuck e cheeses
Speaker 6: and see if there's any bookings.
Speaker 3: So she could still be planning a surprise.
Speaker 6: There's a surprise from the surprise.
Speaker 5: I don't know. It seems like the birthday is like
Speaker 5: far away in her mind too, like like she's not
Speaker 5: even planning anything anymore, you know.
Speaker 4: Okay, So we have a mission now to find out
Speaker 4: why after your girl friend booked a vacation for your
Speaker 4: thirtieth birthday and got you an expensive watch, she took
Speaker 4: it all back with zero explanation. We'll try to get
Speaker 4: you some answers in your awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 5: Thank you guys.
Speaker 4: Next, it's awkward, it's Tuesday.
Speaker 5: It's awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 4: What are the subtle red flags from a significant other
Speaker 4: that show they're attempting to break up with you?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: Man, maybe if they change your Netflix profile name to
Speaker 4: just the word guest. That's not a good sign screen.
Speaker 4: Or if you find a PowerPoint presentation on their computer
Speaker 4: about why you should start seeing other people.
Speaker 3: Oh, that very specific.
Speaker 4: It's a red flag, but not saying it's totally over yet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, could have helpful information to it.
Speaker 4: And the only thing our listener Kroy has noticed from
Speaker 4: his girlfriend are she's returned his birthday gift without asking him,
Speaker 4: canceled his birthday vacation, and hasn't been communicating about why
Speaker 4: she's doing these things or really wanting to talk to
Speaker 4: him about it at all. So not great, but that's
Speaker 4: why he's come to us looking for advice on how
Speaker 4: to finally get his girlfriend to just be honest and
Speaker 4: tell him what's going on. Yes, Brook, Kroy needs you
Speaker 4: right now and your wisdom. What do you have to
Speaker 4: say to Kroy.
Speaker 5: To help you. Man.
Speaker 3: I am just like you, Kroy.
Speaker 2: I always go to worst case scenario, like I fall
Speaker 2: down that rabbit hole of this is going to the
Speaker 2: most terrible thing ever.
Speaker 3: And I think.
Speaker 4: I'm hoping there was some advice on so that is.
Speaker 3: Well, that is the advice.
Speaker 2: You can only go up from there, you know, Like
Speaker 2: like my mom used to tell me before i'd like
Speaker 2: try out for a team or apply from a job,
Speaker 2: She'd be like, you're not gonna get that.
Speaker 3: You probably won't get that, And then when I did,
Speaker 3: it was so exciting. So maybe assume she's cheating on
Speaker 3: you too. Yeah, yeah, talking alexis.
Speaker 4: You've already hit rock bottom.
Speaker 6: Croy.
Speaker 4: That must feel good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not. I can't say I'm rolling with that
Speaker 5: advice because I didn't even think about her cheating on me,
Speaker 5: and now I'm kind of spiraling.
Speaker 2: Oh oh wow, so you're gonna so there we go.
Speaker 4: What do you think, Jose, I.
Speaker 6: Don't know a ton about women. Shocking, Okay, I'm assuming
Speaker 6: if you want one to open up to you, you
Speaker 6: want to give her like food and wine. But you're
Speaker 6: not with her right now, You're not in the same location.
Speaker 3: Are you going to give me the food and water.
Speaker 6: Tell her you love her, and then don't talk. Just
Speaker 6: see what she says. She may feel guilty and open up.
Speaker 6: She may double down and say I love you forever.
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, I just toss out and I love you
Speaker 4: and read the vibe from her reaction. What do you
Speaker 4: think of that, Croy?
Speaker 3: That's what I should have said.
Speaker 5: I can figure out a way to read that in yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I love you to your girlfriend of two years.
Speaker 6: It's going to be a tough one.
Speaker 4: Somehow I'll figure out a way to drop the l
Speaker 4: arm on her. But I think that's actually good advice, Jose.
Speaker 2: And when she doesn't say anything back to you or
Speaker 2: says thank you, it's okay man.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 4: We're running out of time, though, so we just got
Speaker 4: to start dialing your girlfriend, Chrissy and see if she answers. Croy,
Speaker 4: You've got this.
Speaker 5: Man, Okay, I'm ready, guys. Let's do it all right, man.
Speaker 4: I'm a dollar number right now. We'll be waiting quietly
Speaker 4: to jump in if you need help.
Speaker 5: Here we go. Hello, Hey, hey baby, it's me babe.
Speaker 5: Where are you calling me from? I'm just I'm just
Speaker 5: calling from another number. As all I wanted to know
Speaker 5: if I could talk to you real quick for a second.
Speaker 5: Of all, I'm kind of busy right now. Can we
Speaker 5: talk about when I get home? Uh? Well, you've been
Speaker 5: busy like the last three days. I've barely seen yourn
Speaker 5: to you like at all. I just need two minutes, okay,
Speaker 5: just two minutes please, Okay, okay, okay, okay. So here's
Speaker 5: the deal. I love you, Okay, that's why you called me. Well,
Speaker 5: I'm just getting a bad feeling in the pit of
Speaker 5: my stomach because of the way you've been acting the
Speaker 5: last month. I don't know what you're talking about. Okay.
Speaker 5: You gave me that nice watch and then you gave
Speaker 5: it back without asking me. Isn't that a little weird?
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 2: I don't know what to tell you, okay.
Speaker 5: And then you book us the trip of a lifetime
Speaker 5: for my birthday and get me excited about it, and
Speaker 5: then text me yesterday saying that you canceled it. I
Speaker 5: don't know what to say, Chrissy, are you about to
Speaker 5: break up with me? Look? Something happened and I don't
Speaker 5: know how to tell you. Okay, Okay, Well listen, I'm
Speaker 5: here for you. Okay, I love you. Tell me what's
Speaker 5: going on? Please?
Speaker 4: Well, you know the watch I got it was pretty expensive.
Speaker 5: I mean maybe you don't know, but it was. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 6: The trip my box was pretty pricey.
Speaker 5: Okay. Well I didn't ask you to spend that money.
Speaker 5: You wanted to spend the money, I know, and.
Speaker 6: I thought I could afford it because I was using
Speaker 6: Apple Bay.
Speaker 3: Oh no, okay, did you know that's real money?
Speaker 5: Like I just thought it was like Apple points I
Speaker 5: earned by using my iPhone. It's like I'm stupid.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: Oh hello, hi Chrissy.
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 3: Oh sweet girl?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Chrissy, Hello, Hi, Hi.
Speaker 4: It's my job to tell you right now that you're
Speaker 4: on a radio show called Brooke and Jeffrey in the
Speaker 4: Morning and we're doing something called the awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 2: What.
Speaker 5: I'm really sorry, Chrissy. I didn't know. I didn't know
Speaker 5: how else to get you to talk about this. I
Speaker 5: had to go to the radio and Ed had the radio.
Speaker 5: That's why I'm calling from a different number because I
Speaker 5: didn't know what was going on. Just ask me at home.
Speaker 3: No, it's okay, it's okay.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's way better than what he thought, I said,
Speaker 2: Jackie only was up.
Speaker 4: No, it's I didn't know apple Pay was using real
Speaker 4: money because I'm an idiot, because I was an Android
Speaker 4: person for so long and I just chased over six
Speaker 4: months ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you connect your credit card to I'm sorry you
Speaker 2: didn't think apple pay was real money.
Speaker 4: What did you think it was?
Speaker 5: But I thought I was earning like Apple points. It's
Speaker 5: like taking American dollars from your credit card.
Speaker 3: That's why your.
Speaker 2: Credit card pops up when you press it, right.
Speaker 6: I just thought there was a deposit to have, just
Speaker 6: some case, Okay, to make sure you have an active
Speaker 6: bank account.
Speaker 3: It's okay.
Speaker 2: Adulting's hard and we're not all taught the lessons that
Speaker 2: we should be taught before being sent out.
Speaker 3: To the real world.
Speaker 4: Okay, we don't need to come descend.
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to be condescending. I've tried to make
Speaker 3: her feel better.
Speaker 5: Babe. You thought that for using your iPhone for six months,
Speaker 5: you got enough Apple points to buy a nice watch
Speaker 5: and a trip to the Bahamas.
Speaker 2: Well, I use it every day.
Speaker 3: I mean I like her point system better.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you can't believe.
Speaker 5: You put me on the rating.
Speaker 3: You could have just asked me.
Speaker 5: Now everybody knows how stupid I am.
Speaker 3: No, no, wait, you just had an airhead moment. We've
Speaker 3: all had them before.
Speaker 5: Funda. This is a lot better than what I thought
Speaker 5: was happening. And I thought you canceled all those things
Speaker 5: because you were trying to break up with me.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Oh, I just didn't know how to tell you because
Speaker 5: it's like the dumbest thing I've ever done, and I
Speaker 5: was really dumb, and now you just put me on
Speaker 5: blast to the.
Speaker 4: World like, yeah, well, he's not trying to put you
Speaker 4: on blaster or do anything. It's he only came to
Speaker 4: us for help because he was trying to ask you
Speaker 4: about it, and you kept saying we'll talk later or
Speaker 4: you're too busy. The good news is this is all
Speaker 4: finally out in the open. There's solutions. It sounds like
Speaker 4: you've figured things out about how Apple pay actually works.
Speaker 3: And what a sweet girlfriend to even plan that stuff
Speaker 3: to begin with.
Speaker 5: He's the best girlfriend ever. I really really love her,
Speaker 5: you guys.
Speaker 4: With that comment, he just heard himself some boyfriend points there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why I fill that bucket, buddy, which are
Speaker 1: different than American dollar points.
Speaker 4: Yes, so you know you can't buy much.
Speaker 5: It's kind of crypto.
Speaker 4: So listen, Chrissy, CROI, both of you. You can go
Speaker 4: back to planning the thirty its birthday, something a little
Speaker 4: bit more in your budget. But don't be upset with
Speaker 4: each other.
Speaker 5: M Oh, I'm not upset. I'm not upset at all.
Speaker 5: This is the best. This is great.
Speaker 4: How about you?
Speaker 5: This is very embarrassing, but I will get over it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, Chrissy, look at it this way. A
Speaker 4: wise old radio host once told me this is your
Speaker 4: rock bottom. It can only get better. It actually does.
Speaker 1: Working Jeffrey in the morning, There's.
Speaker 4: Got to be some people listening to this right now
Speaker 4: who just had the exact same realization that Apple Pay
Speaker 4: isn't rewards points for using your cell phone. It's actual,
Speaker 4: real American dollars.
Speaker 6: Some kid is like, I'm about to be in so
Speaker 6: much trouble.
Speaker 1: Yep, I'm gonna tell you my kids don't even have
Speaker 1: phones yet, but I'm still gonna go home and show them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's real money. I mean, Alexis Starbucks uses this
Speaker 4: where you can earn Starbucks points and earn and get
Speaker 4: free drinks. Why wouldn't Apple do the same exact.
Speaker 3: Thing, right, you're right.
Speaker 5: I don't know talking.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think our podcast should have a reward
Speaker 4: system where for every three awkward Tuesdays you listen to,
Speaker 4: Brooke will give you one dollar straight out of her
Speaker 4: son's piggy bank.
Speaker 3: It seems like A does not do that part singing.
Speaker 4: Everyone subscribe and earn free money stolen from Brook's children.
Speaker 4: I think it's a it's wherever you get your podcasts
Speaker 4: that Brook and Jeffrey